Download the graphical workflow definition for documentation purposes

[Frank Reichenbach]

Hi Jocelyn,
I am on 46c right now but this changes with different assignments...
Thank's for the function module, it really helped a lot. But there's still a long way to go I guess as Visio has a real strange input format!
 
Regards,
Frank
 
 
--- "Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
> wrote:
>Hi Frank,
>You haven't told us what release you are using but see if your system
>contains
>function module SWD_API_WORKFLOW_GRAPHIC_GET as this should give you most of
>what
>you need.
>Regards,
>        Jocelyn Dart
>Consultant (EBP, BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
>SAP Australia
>Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
>Tel: +61 412 390 267
>Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Frank Reichenbach [mailto:frankreichenbach at dontgotmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 10:30 PM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Download the graphical workflow definition for documentation
>purposes
>
>
>Hi guys,
>        I am looking for an automated way to export the graphical definition
>of a workflow (ClassicEPC)in order to generate Visio etc. flow charts for
>documentation purposes.
>Everything one needs seems to be in the following tables:
>SWDSMNODES - nodes
>SWDSMLINES - lines (PRED_NODE & SUCC_NODE)
>SWDSTEXT - text of the nodes
>
>Has anyone written an ABAP doing just that or does anyone know another
>simple way to export the graphics?
>
>So far I tried to "print" the graphical definition in a wmf file and then
>pasted (ctrl+v) this into a Visio drawing. The only problem with this method
>is that one can't process the drawing generated that way: the whole chart is
>grouped and if one ungroups the objects, thousands of sub-objects are being
>generated... (e.g. a workflow with 10 steps leads to >9000 sub-objects!!!)
>So by the time you are finished re-grouping the proper sub-objects to form
>steps, nodes and lines you would be finished drawing the workflow from
>scratch.
>
>Any of your comments are welcome!
>
>Reards,
>
>Frank
>
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